Question

Before the positive psychology movement , psychology focused mainly on

Answer 1

Correct answer choice is:

D) The history of mental illness.

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Explanation:

Mental health is a stage of emotional well-being or an inadequacy of mental illness. It is the "mental state of someone who is performing at a competent level of nervous and behavioral change".

The philosopher and physician, Hippocrates, found that illnesses develop from “natural happenings in the body” (Foerschner). As Hippocrates was inquiring about subjective illness, he passed away from the erroneous assumptions and towards the therapeutic aspect of it.